About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own l…

Margaret Atwood
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About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives. ✨ Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June, 1995.
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About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives. ✨ Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June, 1995.

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